Overhead Clap
oec:overhead-clap
A standing calisthenic drill where the arms are repeatedly raised out to the sides or front to clap overhead.
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Also called: Overhead Arm Clap, Claps Over the Head, Overhead Hand Clap
How to do it
Setup
- Stand tall with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms resting naturally at your sides.
- Brace your core lightly and keep your chest lifted with shoulders relaxed.
Movement
- Raise both arms out to the sides in a wide arc until they meet directly over your head.
- Clap your palms together firmly at the top of the motion.
- Lower your arms back down along the same path under control to the starting position.
Breathing
Breathe rhythmically, inhaling as the arms ascend and exhaling as they descend.
Cues
- Keep elbows long but soft
- Clap directly overhead
- Keep your ribs down and core braced
Common faults
- Arching the lower back when reaching overhead.
- Engage your abdominals to keep the ribs anchored and the spine neutral.
- Shrugging the shoulders aggressively up into the ears.
- Allow natural scapular upward rotation without excessively tensing the neck.
Safety
- If you experience shoulder impingement or pain overhead, stop short of full abduction or turn the thumbs upward.
Muscles
Joints
- Shoulder: Abduction, Adduction
- Shoulder blade: Upward rotation, Downward rotation
Details
- Movement
- Mobility drill, Shoulder raise isolation
- Modality
- Calisthenics, Mobility, Conditioning
- Mechanics
- isolation
- Force
- push
- Laterality
- bilateral
- Kinetic chain
- open
- Level
- beginner
- Equipment
- None
- Record
- Repetitions; or Duration
- Load
- bodyweight
Related
- part of Step Jack
Sources
- wger: Claps over the head, by Lynn_McIntyre (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
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